Lac de la Puce in Abitibi-Témiscamingue: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  Set in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, this is Lac de la Puce. The bank is 339 metres above sea level. Surface area runs to about 4 hectares — small enough to read in one session. Most waters listed here for Abitibi-Témiscamingue are larger. Mattawa lies 52 km from the water. Further out sit Deep River (58 km) and Chalk River (68 km). Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.

• Where to Fish on Lac de la Puce

  No published figure covers depth, so learn it as you fish. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Public occurrence data for Abitibi-Témiscamingue names northern pike, yellow perch and walleye. The county list is broader than any single water. Lac de la Puce repays a walk before the first cast.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Typical July readings run about 18°C; by January the average is down near -14°C. Cold winters and warm summers give a wide working range. Expect a solid lid for months and a thaw around late April. The lid tends to go about late April and return around late November. The middle of summer slows a little, with dawn and dusk carrying it. Lac de la Puce fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether you may fish here is not something records settle. Nothing formal is recorded here: no ramp, no car park, no marked path. Pike mean a wire trace, no exceptions; big spoons and jerkbaits do the searching. Parking space is the usual limit rather than the bank itself. Rules for boats are stricter than rules for the bank in many places. Lac de la Cartouche sits 2.6 km off and takes the overflow. None of that is settled for Lac de la Puce in what we hold.